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Josep Ramoneda's documentary tries to portray new ways of understanding ageing.

The tobacco plant was introduced to Granada (Southern Spain) in 1923. It became a monoculture in the region until the end of the century. When the tobacco production stopped being profitable, the farmers switched to new crops like wheat, corn or asparagus. However, the lands of Granada are still replete with tobacco barns: large empty houses where the leaves used to be hanged to dry. They inhabit the landscape like architectural ghosts.

'Garage' is a semi-surreal outing to an American icon: the garage. Since Frank Lloyd Wright first imagined a special space for the car in his architectural vision for modern life in the suburbs, the garage has transformed itself from a symbol of suburbia to an incubator for subcultures and tech companies dreaming of building empires out of nothing, just like Apple.

In full swing of the agro-export model in Argentina, Andrés Carrasco, renowned Argentine scientist, denounces the harmful effects of agrotoxins on human health. While putting the state-subsidized scientific system in check in collusion with companies, it became a benchmark for the victims of the model.

In a Harry Potter themed costume party, a group of people start arguing and nobody knows why. Three of their friends will tell each one a tale of what they think happened.

A complete circle around the solar year.

This short film documents an up and coming drag collective known as House Of the Show. The collective shares their experiences and struggles of keeping up with their monthly and sometimes weekly performances, as well as their thoughts on their first anniversary as a group.

Andreas Homoki realized this production in the middle of the pandemic, and its extraordinary premiere was celebrated with only 50 audience members in attendance and a huge television audience watching on Arte from their homes. Homoki created fleshed-out characters, as well as a clear and suspense-filled narrative arc. In order to facilitate the opera's multiple time periods, his production allowed for imaginary spaces of memory.

A film portrait of Argentinian pianist Margarita Fernández. Medium makes her visible as a mediator, building bridges between past and present, different generations, scores and music, sounds and images, her own art and that of cinema.

Autobiographical documentary by Juan De La Mar. Join me to plant myself back to live.

During the first wave of COVID-19, Diego, an international student, spends the quarantine alone. The motivation that comes from starting a new era gets quickly overshadowed by the loneliness that's chasing him. To feel a little warmth, he holds to what used to be love, without knowing that by trying to bring it back, he'll end up hitting rock bottom once more.

Bajo Fuego depicts the unraveling of peace for a group of coca growing peasants in the southwest of Colombia. The film takes the perspective of the ‘cocaleros’ and over a period of 3 years shows how they survive in the midst of the most difficult circumstances. The government delays in fulfilling what it promised in the agreement, economic difficulties arise for families that substituted their coca trees, and the increasing presence of armed groups start to terrorise the region. The promised peace in Colombia turns out to be an illusion when the newly armed groups take control, assassinations occur, and the films’ main protagonists are being threatened with their lives and displaced. Even though peace was supposedly signed in Colombia, Bajo Fuego shows that for many in the southwest of Colombia the war continues.

In Rivera 2100, a corner house facing a railway’s warehouse in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, a young newlywed couple built, with its own hands, a house that was the beginning of their own cultural zeitgeist; a safe haven that irradiated music, art and freedom, in the midst of a country that was living its darkest and most violent time.

Dad is gone. Dad is a ghost. Dad is a thing ... spinning in his own skin.

Roque was disoriented. They told him that he was a human being and that he could become a mermaid. He didn't understand why it was one thing that had to become another. Also forever! One thing or the other. Black or white. Meat or fish. Boy or girl. Human or mermaid ... As if there were only two options! Can't a decision also be that you don't want to make a decision?

Eliana is a film student who, triggered by the critics of her professor, decides to immerse herself into her short film. She is determined to make something likeable, so she begins a search for that thing known as "style".

Following the life of artists Eric Adamsons (Puerto Rico) and Heins Kim (New York), with their Icelandic colleague Samúel Hjaltalín, as they immerse themselves into the cultural and scientific understandings of the Aurora Borealis. The artists document their collaborations with international institutions, both educational and private enterprise, and individuals alike in an attempt to send cutting edge imaging equipment into heart of the Aurora at an altitude of approximately 300 km. The film chronicles their successes and challenges provoking conversations concerning how we as a society define achievement, while addressing humankind's pensive effort to coax the marriage between faith (mythology, religion) and empirical evidence.

The history of Western Sahara was cut short more than 40 years ago. One, two and almost three generations have seen their life expectations and those of their children frustrated, powerless in the face of the impunity with which Morocco continues to occupy their territory. Through the life of Hask, a Sahrawi who has been living in Spain since he was 12 years old, the story of people who live in a borrowed desert far from their home is told.

In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mirsada and her daughter survive in a shelter in the hope of finding a home. In Tbilisi, Georgia, elderly Bela struggles to recover the bodies of those missing in the war in Abkhazia. In Greece, Alia and Hussein, who fled the war in Syria, long for a reunion with their daughter Zozan.

The texture of memory gains bearing and its own sounds in a narrative which, stemming from image fragments (such as our memories), refuses to reiterate the expectation of violence and aggression in the bodies of Syrian men persecuted in certain territories. These bodies are managed by nothing but tenderness, fraternity. And this time narrated from the point of view of a woman, who also speaks of these cyclical processes of caring for one another.

Julieta is unable to focus on the class about the French revolution she's taking because of some noises coming from outside. None of her classmates seem interested. She'll be surprised when, in spite of the teacher, she looks out the window and sees the french revolution itself taking place across the street.

Santiago, a young man with a troubled past and a fragile mind, arrives unexpectedly at his family's summer house to escape from his overprotecting grandmother. However, he does not suspect that Tránsito, the housekeeper of the house, awaited his arrival with unknown intentions.

A film about magic and the telluric. A spell to protect a home and bid farewell to another.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Fundació Èpica de La Fura dels Baus and the processes involved in creating their Informació vs. Memoria workshop. Scientists, artists, chefs, philosophers, and residents of the Manresà district of Badalona, home to the collective’s headquarters, took part in the workshop which was intended to test new hypotheses and technologies and consider how art and science can help us meet the new challenges of the information age.

Opening and closing a door. Opening and closing the eyes. The lighthouses of a shadow illuminate the secret under my bed Like eyes in the shadow.

In this documentary, lawyers remember their shared decades-long fight for democracy and civil rights in Spain during and after Franco's dictatorship.

The mayor of Judiel wants to seize land from the people of Goza, and they are attacking village. Simona and Martina are two sisters who live in a house separated by a line, one side belongs to Judiel and the other to Goza. Each of them is marked by the characteristics of the two villages. The nonsense of the conflicts, and the separations they cause, will be reflected in the history of these two sisters.

According to the myth still in force in the coal towns of Patagonia, if a woman enters a mine, the earth becomes jealous. Then, there’s collapse and death. Shady River starts from a dark personal experience to transform in a film about the silence of women who live in men's villages. How to film where our presence is prohibited? How to record the resonances of what doesn’t sound? As the fog and smoke from the power plant cover the town, the voices of the women of Shady River force their way between the white of the ice and the hum of the drilling machines, until blowing up the structure of silence.

Héctor Martínez, a veteran football player, singer of West Indian music and traditional cook, tells us aspects of his life, which brings us closer to the popular history of Cali in the mid-20th century, a city in constant transformation that neglects his memory.

Julio Lumbreras was one of the first patients to enter an ICU in Spain with Covid-19. Through the phone messages of his family, we follow his 57 days of fighting the coronavirus.

Hair loss is taking a toll on Pablo. Is his bald head responsible for his failed relationship? While searching for new confidence, he experiences a humorous odyssey.

From the narration of a youtuber, the idea arises that the slightest variation in circumstances can cause all the lives of the protagonists to evolve in completely different ways. This is how from a computer error, a couple meets, others discover an infidelity and a group of people die. All this in the key of black comedy

Three forces of nature, three animal-individuals that meet in the clear area of the human jungle just for an instant. Then, everything is suspended, they recognize each other, they measure their strengths. They vibrate, not only as similar but as equals. They are driven to each other with no other chance, they throw themselves, they give themselves and mingle. However, they deeply know they should't, they cannot culminate. It is their actual and unstoppable desire, but if they do - If they let themselves go, they will devour each other.

More than 10 years after the 2008 Georgian Russian War, wounds in the Caucasian country remain open. We travel to this beautiful country to get closer to its political, cultural and social realities, to learn a little more about that wound that still hurts.

Nina is a rat-girl who lives with her kind in an underground village, which is ruled by a harsh tyranny. But she will discover that a big world exists outside, and she will escape there to improve her understanding of reality.